Hand-held medical-data capture-device having variation amplification and interoperation with an electronic medical record system on a specific segment of a network
First Claim
1. A non-touch thermometer to measure a temperature, the non-touch thermometer comprising:
- a microprocessor;
a battery operably coupled to the microprocessor;
a single button operably coupled to the microprocessor;
a camera operably coupled to the microprocessor and operable to capture at least two images to a memory;
wherein the microprocessor includes a pixel-examination-module that is operable to examine pixel values of the at least two images in the memory, a temporal-variation module that is operable to determine temporal variation of the pixel values between the at least two images, a signal processing module that is operable to amplify the temporal variation resulting in amplified temporal variation, and a vital-sign generator that is operably coupled to the signal processing module that generates at least one human vital sign from the temporal variation;
a wireless communication subsystem that is operably coupled to the microprocessor and that is operable to transmit a representation of the at least one human vital sign.
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Abstract
In one implementation, an apparatus estimates body core temperature from an infrared measurement of an external source point using a cubic relationship between the body core temperature and the measurement of an external source point is described, estimates temperature from a digital infrared sensor and determines vital signs from a solid-state image transducer, or determines vital signs from a solid-state image transducer and estimates body core temperature from an infrared measurement of an external source point using a cubic relationship between the body core temperature and the measurement of an external source point; after which the estimated and/or determined information is transmitted to an external database.
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20 Claims
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1. A non-touch thermometer to measure a temperature, the non-touch thermometer comprising:
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a microprocessor; a battery operably coupled to the microprocessor; a single button operably coupled to the microprocessor; a camera operably coupled to the microprocessor and operable to capture at least two images to a memory; wherein the microprocessor includes a pixel-examination-module that is operable to examine pixel values of the at least two images in the memory, a temporal-variation module that is operable to determine temporal variation of the pixel values between the at least two images, a signal processing module that is operable to amplify the temporal variation resulting in amplified temporal variation, and a vital-sign generator that is operably coupled to the signal processing module that generates at least one human vital sign from the temporal variation; a wireless communication subsystem that is operably coupled to the microprocessor and that is operable to transmit a representation of the at least one human vital sign. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. A non-touch thermometer to measure a temperature, the non-touch thermometer comprising:
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a microprocessor; a digital infrared sensor operably coupled to the microprocessor, the digital infrared sensor having only digital readout ports, the digital infrared sensor having no analog sensor readout ports; a battery operably coupled to the microprocessor; a single button operably coupled to the microprocessor; a camera operably coupled to the microprocessor and operable to capture at least two images to a memory; wherein the microprocessor includes a pixel-examination-module that is operable to examine pixel values of the at least two images in the memory, a temporal-variation module that is operable to determine temporal variation of the pixel values between the at least two images, a signal processing module that is operable to amplify the temporal variation resulting in amplified temporal variation, and a vital-sign generator that is operably coupled to the signal processing module that generates at least one human vital sign from the temporal variation; wherein the microprocessor is operable to receive from the digital readout ports a digital signal that is representative of an infrared signal detected by the digital infrared sensor and the microprocessor is operable to determine the temperature from the digital signal that is representative of the infrared signal, wherein the temperature further comprises a body core temperature and wherein determining the body core temperature is based on a cubic relationship representing three thermal ranges between a numerical representation of electromagnetic energy of an external source point and the body core temperature, wherein the cubic relationship includes a coefficient representative of different relationships between the external source point and the body core temperature in the three thermal ranges; a wireless communication subsystem that is operably coupled to the microprocessor and that is operable to transmit a representation of the at least one human vital sign and the body core temperature, wherein the wireless communication subsystem is configured to operate on a specific segment of a network; and a display device that is operably coupled to the microprocessor that displays the at least one human vital sign.
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16. A non-touch thermometer to measure a body core temperature, the non-touch thermometer comprising:
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a microprocessor; a digital infrared sensor operably coupled to the microprocessor, the digital infrared sensor having only digital readout ports, the digital infrared sensor having no analog sensor readout ports, the digital infrared sensor comprising a low noise amplifier, an analog-to-digital converter, a digital signal processor, and a pulse width modulator (PWM) in a single industry standard package;
wherein the digital infrared sensor is configured with no need for recalibration after an initial factory calibration with an emissivity range from 0.1 to 1.0;a battery operably coupled to the microprocessor; wherein the microprocessor is operable to receive from the digital readout ports a digital signal that is representative of an infrared signal detected by the digital infrared sensor and the microprocessor is operable to determine the body core temperature from the digital signal that is representative of the infrared signal, and a wireless communication subsystem that is operably coupled to the microprocessor and that is operable to transmit a representation of the body core temperature. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20)
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